How long does it take to read The Implied Reader?
Patterns of Communication in Prose Fiction from Bunyan to Beckett
The Implied Reader by Wolfgang Iser takes about 5 hours 50 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 5 hours 50 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1974. 318 pages, about 87,450 words.
12 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 9 hours 43 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 50 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 39 minutes |
The page count is the median across 3 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
Subjects: History and criticism, Reader-response criticism, Fiction, English fiction, history and criticism, English fiction
